Jesse Walker | Fisher College of Business

Assistant Professor

Marketing & Logistics

Background

Jesse Walker studies consumer behavior. He’s interested in how normal judgment processes can be hijacked by the social environment to create predictable biases in consumer decision making. His work on biased judgment and consumer well-being has appeared in numerous journals including in The Journal of Marketing, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

He received his PhD in social psychology from Cornell University in 2019. Prior to graduate school, he spent nine years touring the world with his band, the Flobots, and three years as a Senior Pricing Analyst with Safeco Insurance Company.

His research has been covered by media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Geographic, The Huffington Post, ESPN.com, Business Insider, Marketwatch, Fast Company, CNBC, and Science Daily.

Courses

BUSML 4201 - Consumer Behavior: Examines how and why people behave as consumers. Its goals are to provide an understanding of consumer behavior and to provide experience in the application of this knowledge to marketing management and social policy decision making. Prereq: 3250, AcctMIS 2200, 2300, BusOBA 2320, and 2321; and BusMHR 2291 or 2292.
BUSML 7202 - Consumer Behavior: Development of the consumer decision process and its application to marketing strategy decisions. Prereq: 6250 or MBA 6252 or 6253.